(a) The employer and a full-time employee must agree on the arrangement for working the average of 38 ordinary hours per week required for full-time employment.

The Hospitality Award covers hospitality employers and their employees who have jobs listed in the classification definitions of the award. The classifications cover some management staff, but not senior managers.

$19.49 per hour
These are different types of employment, with different rates of pay, penalty rates, and benefits. Typical entry-level, casual roles in the hospitality industry will pay either the national minimum wage, which is currently $19.49 per hour or they will pay an award wage that’s industry and job-specific.

An employee who is required to work more than six hours and up to eight hours in a shift is entitled to a 30 minute unpaid break. An employee who is required to work more than eight hours and up to ten hours in a shift is entitled to a 30 minute unpaid break and an additional 20 minute paid break.

A casual employee is generally a person who is ‘engaged to work as such’, for a minimum number of hours per shift (generally, it is either a minimum of 3 or 4 hours).

Under California law, workers can be classified as part-time if they work fewer than 40 hours per week. Though, employers can designate workers as full-time employees whenever they choose to do so.

The Award does not generally cover: Boarding schools, residential colleges, hospitals, orphanages, councils or local government bodies, catering by a restaurant business or aged care facility, theme parks, in-flight catering businesses or roadhouses that sell petrol;

The minimum engagement is 3 hours per day. Part-time employees must have a written agreement that includes the number of hours the employee is guaranteed to be given each week or roster cycle, and the employee’s availability periods including days and times. For example, a part-time employee might have 10 guaranteed hours per week.

Each classification has a corresponding minimum rate of pay. Examples of employees covered by the Hospitality Award: Food, beverage and gaming attendants (including bar staff and waiters); Employees performing any other duty set out in Schedule D – Classification Definitions.

part-time employee is an employee who has a guaranteed number of hours to be provided and paid each week or over each roster cycle. The number of guaranteed hours must be at least 8 hours and less than 38 hours each week, or an average of